POLL:Do you think the your Group / Unit will be able to upload its Youth Data in time

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I put yes, just done 12 manually as thats all I have had returned by parents, its easier than I anticipated, each entry takes 5 minutes.
Just need the parents to return their forms by the 10th our last meeting and all will be done by the end of the year.

We have collected the data and got it in the spreadsheets with no problem. We have not tried uploading it yet. We thought we would let others kick some of the bugs out first. The upload seems to have worked for some, so I see no reason why it would not work for us. We are doing mandatory fields only. Parent's dates of birth is not something we are planning to ask for. So I have optimistically voted Yes.
We still have to sort the adults out. We have an interesting collection of adults in our Beaver Colony including one from another Group altogether. This aspect of the census is more concerning and needs a lot of work. We have almost 40 adults allocated to our Group. I only wish that was really true and not just a Compass dream. We have to get this bit sorted or else we will be paying HQ for loads of adults who don't belong. If we can't maybe we will get another "Growing the Movement" award.
We are planning to start a second Beaver Colony early next year. That could get exciting.
Good luck with your inputs.

Just uploaded our cubs section via the bull upload read it and played back what I sent, now apparently it could take up to a week to be "verified" and appear in the system. Bulk upload waste of time it'd be quicker to manually enter each one.